It was in the fridge for 11 of those 12 hours!

My wife just threw out a ~12 hour old fried rice we doggy bagged last night that I was planning on lunching on because we “touched it with our spoons”. Sigh.

Maybe we should be trying less hard to not hurt ourselves. 😝

I stumbled a few months back stepping over a rope that was about fifteen centimeters off the ground and cracked a rib or something. I didn’t even fall, just kinda leaned forward the wrong way a bit. Pain for weeks.

Yep. There are still swastikas all over Korea because it’s been associated with Buddhists for far longer than Hitler who appropriated it. Freaks out visiting westerners, though.

Ubuntu 6 on a Samsung laptop I had lying around 2006ish. The webcam and trackpad wouldn’t work, but a mouse and not caring about the webcam made that tolerable. It was the only OS I ran for a year or so. I went back to Windows for gaming shortly afterwards, but have been using Linux off-and-on in some form ever since.

It’s been largely phased out in Korea as well.

Well, mimics. It messes with receptors or something like that. I’m not a biologist! You probably shouldn’t do that.

FYI, BPS mimics estrogen in the human body. Messes with your hormones. Fun stuff!

Belly Dance in my ass.

Yeah, I remember the episode where they go faster than warp 10 (an impossibility by Trek’s own lore) and Janeway and Paris “evolve” into lizards that make babies. It’s terrible, but I’m actually kind of looking forward to it to alleviate the boredom.

Do you wear thick, rubber soled shoes?

I used to be like this. Now, some years on, it hits me like a truck. One cup of coffee and I’m wired for hours. Gives me wicked headaches, too. Dunno!

I’m trying to get through Voyager again, and Trek writing really took a nose dive after Deep Space 9. Not that TNG or DS9 were perfect or anything, far from it, but Voyager just doesn’t seem to earn any of its emotional moments like those that made TNG and DS9 great.

It feels like they shot all of season 1 at the same time, and then just shuffled the episode order or something. After the premiere, everyone is slotted neatly in their places. There’s a little bit about Torres having to earn her keep as head engineer, but that’s it. Everyone just automatically accepted Chakotay as first officer. There’s talk of Maquis and Federation conflict in the crew, but we don’t see any.

They seem determined to focus on Neelix and Kess who are quite possibly the blandest pairing ever conceived in Trek. It’s just all so mediocre compared to the last couple of seasons of DS9 which were legitimately great. It’s taking me forever to get through season 1 because I’m just not motivated to watch it at all anymore.

I thought I liked it more than this, but I guess it has been a few years since the last time I watched it.

I don’t know if I buy half of this, but I am enjoying the book enough to continue. Quite a bit of it has been quite comprehensible recently as well. It’s definitely better when it’s not an incomprehensible word salad whether there is meaning in that salad or not.

It’s good, but beware the OG DS version. There’s a tacked-on minigame when you beat a boss that requires you draw a symbol on the screen to finish the fight. If you mess it up, the boss comes back to life (not full anyway) and you have to kill them again. Early bosses aren’t so bad, but later bosses have some ridiculously complex symbols to draw. It’s infuriating and stupid. I’m sure the new release does away with them in some manner.

Well, this kind of thing is why I made this thread. I know people are passionate about this book, and I think I need to vicariously feed on them because I’m not always passionate about it.

I’m glad there’s something to be gleaned without necessarily understanding everything because I’m not understanding a whole lot, but I am generally enjoying the rhythm of the writing as you put it. Pynchon is undeniably onto something here. I don’t know if I’m into it enough to truly become familiar with the material, but I don’t think I’ll regret getting through it (if I do. I most likely will at this point.)

I’ve emulated the GBA games in the past. I think the port is actually very well put-together as far as emulated games go. I do wish the menu with savestates were a little snappier.

I only tried to emulate the DS games once or twice. I’m sure DS emulation is better now, but it was really rough, then.

Aria of Sorrow and Dawn of Sorrow are the standouts here for sure. Not that the others are bad, but those two are just exceptional.

I think trying to listen to this as an audiobook is folly. It’s hard enough to follow reading at my own pace.